Please add a configurable email address to receive the monthly invoice (the actual pdf) at.

Really?

Do it please.

yes please and as others commented already - make an option to add especial email for the accounting department, so the developers does not have to log in and download the invoice every month.

Please add this...

+1000 this is really frustrating to do this manually every month...

+1 How is still still not a feature!? How many of us are stuck downloading and emailing invoices every single month?

A duplicate of this more voted suggestion: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/4879459-attach-invoice-pdf-with-1st-of-month-email-notific

good feature, really need it

Please send the pdf invoice by emails.

+1

Also, at least from my perspective, I see no need to include a PDF (as a file attachment) in my "invoice generated (1st of the month) email notification". Instead, just include the absolute link to the PDFs (or CSVs) already posted on my Billing screen (see screenshot: https://screencast.com/t/yK8xqOxA). Fior the PDF, this link looks like this: cloud.do.com/billing/1234567890.pdf?i=1a2b3c

Hitting this link already requires authentication so I can see this option (adding absolute PDF and CSV links to existing monthly invoice email) being a BIG win if implemented.

Thanks DO!

come on guys

and it is even more annoying, having to authentificate with two factor auth again every month (cause i usually only log in 1-2 times a month)

getting invoices via email would be so good

Please implement this. It is so time consuming having to log in every month and download invoices for each of my clients.

This is a real pain in the ass that we do not have this feature

This is really basic feature. Isnt 798 enough votes ?

+1

I would really appreciate this feature as well. We have many invoices for various services every month and I have to forward them to our accounting dpt. Getting an invoice from DO is just a slow process. Thank you!

Yeap! Send all to an email address, or at lease make them accessible from the API so we can receive them automatically!

That would be super handy. I forward all my invoices to an inbox email address in my bookkeeping tool that automatically tracks invoices from pdfs. But this is not possible with Digital Ocean because the pdf is not included.

+1 to this.All my other invoices are processed automatically, but I need to remember to login to DO and download my invoice every month

Yes! Please make an option to send invoices as PDF each month. Also preferably to separate email address for billing.

I was just going to post the same idea, but found it's already here. I wish it would be possible not only to have PDF attached to the e-mail directly (our accounting has no way of logging in to download on their own), but also to be able to specify a separate billing e-mail address to which those would be sent. Each month a technical team has to download an invoice and forward it to the accounting which is something I wish the techies wouldn't have to do. Thumbs up all the way!

I came here just to vote on this, i agree that this is somewhat urgent and weird its not there already. Its just a matter of *attaching* the actual pdf to the mail you're already sending?

+1

it is AMAZING that this feature is not here. I'm actually seriously considering leaving if they do not implement it...

I need this!

When will this be implemented? It's really annoying to have to login, just to get your invoice.

This feature is a must!!

I have a customer at DO who is literally wanting to move her site to another provider because she doesn't like the process of retrieving her invoices each month. This seems like such a basic feature for you to implement. Why not do so?

We need this.

Guys at DO, we love your product but can you wake up please and implement this asap? In what world is it efficient to not include PDFs invoices in a billing email...

March 03, 2014 this was opened and still no solution? Is there anyway we can accomplish this?

We set up digitalocean droplets for our clients. They are asking for exactly this feature. The accounting team needs access to the monthly invoice pdfs without needing to log in.

Looks like i'll have to disappoint them since this feature is requested almost 4 years ago and is still not implemented ...

Currently, when Digital Ocean sends its monthly billing invoice via email it doesn't attach the invoice to the email. Instead it gives a link to access the invoice, which is hosted elsewhere. This is nonsensical because it causes unnecessary additional steps in our Accounts Payable process when we're attaching invoices to expense payments.

Most SaaS/IaaS providers (i.e. GSuite, AWS etc) attach their monthly invoice as a PDF within an email and DO NOT require the customer to access the invoice elsewhere via a link.

Our organisation would benefit greatly if the invoices are simply attached as a PDF in the email, instead of a link. I'm also convinced that many other organisations who use Digital Ocean would benefit from this too.

Please implement!

We really need this, please do something!!!

Agreed.

A bookkeeper or accountant should not need to have a DO account to be able to get a business's invoices.

The invoice should be generated in PDF and sent to whatever accounts email address a user defines (or multiple accounts if desired) without the recipient needing to log in to access the invoice.

This is quite common practice and makes administration substantially more streamlined.

Thank you VERY much for inserting a direct download link in the email notifications for new invoices !!!

this is must for all of us to get the invoices in the email .. we are using services from many host companies and many other services like domains, email services etc . all are sending their monthly / annual renewal invoices over email.

so i think this should be implemented on DO as well as this is very basic need of all the managers.

This is absolutely a must.
Having my account secured by 2FA makes the operation of fetching invoices very annoying and unnecessary, and reducing security on my account is obviously a no-go.

Dear Digital Oceans team ,

I would like to request to you that if you can send pdf invoices on monthly basis to all customers .Then it would be great .

Digital Ocean just went from "Wow we should use this to host our startup" to "wow, not anymore"

Seriously?!?

We would also very much like to be able to send billing receipts directly to the accountant on a monthly basis.

Need this asap.. please :)

Seriously, how long you have to think about that?

It's absurd I have login each month just to get an invoice copy for accounting office.

…No I don't want my accounting lady to have admin privileges over my droplets. This is ridiculous.

I want to put all my 10 votes on this one!

This is such a basic thing and would make filing accounts so much easier.

Yes please from us too. In any business the accounts department needs the invoices to check payments and for tax - especially for purchases on the Company credit card.

Having the option to send the paid PDF invoice to the accounts email address at the end of the billing period would be very, very useful.

this is a must... can't believe you don't have it available...

+1 for this. The silence from digitalocean is deafening though, its a bit of a worry.

Same here. Waste of time every month. Any response from Digital Ocean on when this comes in the pipeline?

+1 , if you can send a plain text e-mail with the amount, you can also send the whole PDF. Please do this ASAP :-)

PLEASE do something about this. It's a nightmare. Every month, have to login, find the correct invoice, download as a PDF, find in my downloads folder, attach to email and send to our accountant. 5 steps could be simplified to a forward if you simply attach the invoice PDF to the email.

I have to send the invoices to our accountant. Every month I have to log in, go to the billing etc. It would help me if I had quick access to the invoice in the payment receipt email.

There are a few solutions for this:

solution 1) attach the invoice as a PDF to the email
solution 2) put a direct download link in the email
solution 3) have 1 invoice per year

+1, we will continue with AWS until this is fixed.

For emailing invoices I would like to be able to specify a separate email address. We have a dedicated email address for incoming invoices as gathering invoices that drop in all over the place is a big pita.

This is a monthly frustration for us and presumably sysadmins around the world...

Hi, we suggest that it would be a good idea to email out the invoices to the costumer email address as we receive the email confirmation of payment.

Thank you.

This is a MUST needed feature. Your service is the only one we use that we have to log into to get a copy of our bills.

Yes please! It would be super nice if this was automated.

Agreed, this is wasted time every month.

It'd be really useful if there was an automated invoice/receipt system whereby invoices/receipts are emailed once they are ready.

Can everyone create a support ticket and press the issue with the DO helpdesk?

https://cloud.digitalocean.com/support/tickets/new

It seems that this is a simple feature yet it's ignored here.

With an option to specify billing email address(es).

We have several accounts with Digital Ocean. It's truly a waste time every month, logging into the account to retrieve the invoices.

+1

+1

+1

And make make it possible to add a billing email address

This is a major annoyance for us.

More than 200 votes! Let's get this request into production ;)

+1 for Martin's comment, as a lot of (professional) businesses have special dedicated email addresses for invoices which get processed semi-automatically.

Please add your votes here: https://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digitalocean/suggestions/4879459-attach-invoice-pdf-with-1st-of-month-email-notific

Would be very nice yes. Also it should be possible to send the mail to a different address then the one I registered.

@DigitalOcean: Any update on this? Looks like a small change... even just a link to the invoice..
It's quite frustrating to login every month.. going to settings.. billing.. and downloading the invoice,
while the email could have or a link, or directly an attachment :)

I also want my invoices in my mailbox or even better, in the mailbox of my accountant.
the login part is so frustrating and makes me hesitate to suggest DO services to bigger clients.

Yeah, same problem here. I'd love to have this feature.
And by the way... every time you get money from eg. paypal it would be worth to also create an invoice for that.

Please. Please. Add this. Its easy as hell to implement and would save me a ton of time. Cant be that a CEO must log in to a system and download an invoice each and every month for the accounting staff.

Can't believe this isn't a feature already, it's simple to do. I can have one of my programmers do it, feel free to reach out and I'll get you a bid for it ;-)

Any news on this Digital Ocean? Sounds like a small thing to do..

Even just a link to the PDF would be magical.. I need to login every month, go to settings, billing, to finally download this invite for accounting.

Please please for next release?

Agree on this, send invoices with PDF attachments every month and let users choose to which email address.

Yes. I would love to make an email rule to forward just invoices to accounting, either with an attachment or direct link. Just providing the amount doesn't work for them.

DO, any feedback on this? It seems a fairly simple feature to wait for two years to gather feedback!

I agree, while not mission critical it does save time.
All my other suppliers, service providers, etc already have this implemented. Should have thought this would be easy to achieve and common place.

It's time lost to check in the billing section for the invoices.
The majority of services that I use provides the ability for their customers to receive invoices via email.
Do you know if this feature will come soon?

Count me in, this is vital for my time. One might thing it's easy to just sign in and generate it but hey it's them few minutes that I could spend on productive work...

This would save thousands of business users a couple of minutes every month (this quickly adds up). It is a tedious and repetitive process that should be simplified.

This would be very practical!

Yes please!

Totally agree to have some feature like this. I have to forward the bill to finance. If would easier if I can set the email to go to them directly instead of having to retrieve the pdf and send it to them.

Send invoices with PDF attachments every 1st of month and allow users to choose on which email to receive them.

Totally agreed. Or have a direct link to the PDF file - Linode does that and it is so much easier.

I hope it will be the new norm for all SaaS vendors.

I agree. Especially if you enabled two factor authentication. Logging in and downloading the pdf is just unnecessary overhead.

Or being able to send the invoice to a new mail, so the accountant receives the invoice each month!

Shouldn't be too hard to implement, since you already have the generation of PDFs in your web interface... Seeing from the csfr token on the admin interface, it looks like a Ruby on Rails app, and guessing from that, you might have either Sidekiq, Delayed Job or similar doing the monthly emails about billing?

Giving this 3 votes.

For my accounting, I need to have all my invoices printed each quarter, it would be cool if DigitalOcean can send those by email again so we, the professional clients, got a better overview of the expenses and can print them directly.

Shouldn't be much work to add one checkbox 'email new invoices' at the preferences/billing page I assume?

Thanks!

In line with Pat Erler's suggestion I'd find convenient adding an extra email account for billing notifications with the pdf invoices attached.

Another reason, right now we have to give the login to all the tech stuff to accounts so that they can download the incvoice (or an admin has to forward the invoice by hand)